these are the top 5 'phrases' that tony blair attempted to brainwash the nation with tonight, and he should thank god that he's got paxo in front of him and not one of us! ok here it goes: n.5. "Iraq is 'evil' because it is in breach of many U.N. resolutions". some 'extremists' would boldly ask: and what about Israel (let alone the U.S.), which has shamelessy ignored an array of very moderate U.N. resolutions concerning the palestinian population?! then again in mainstream culture certain things are just taboo, if you don't want to be branded an anti-semite! n.4. "Saddam is evil because he has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people". no mention of the more than a million people killed by the U.S. attack and the U.N. 'genocidal' - their own man's term - sanctions. I'm sure tony agrees with mrs. albright that those innocent people were a fair price to pay in the fight for oil..er.. I mean democracy. those are the kind of people the term 'collateral damage' was created for. n.3. "Sharon is a man who wants peace". again, some would argue that bringing to an even more extreme level half a century of violence and humiliation against the palestinian people and refusing to accept any 'peace proposal' (and U.N. resolution) if not on israel's clearly unfair terms is hardly the way for peace. then again, it's arafat who has to fight terrorism: it's always the weak who are terrorists, never the powerful. oh and tony also "completely agrees with the U.S. middle east policy". good to know where he stands. n.2. "the attack on Afghanistan was done in total compliace with international law": what?! the U.S. since the beginning greatly exceeded its limited right to self-defense under International law! the british-accepted definition of self-defense is that: "there must be a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation. [The means of self-defense must involve] nothing unreasonable or excessive; since the act , justified by the necessity of self-defense, must be limited by that necessity, and kept clearly within it". you could say that the indiscriminate bombing of hundreds of thousands of civilians was 'excessive', let alone the fact that the U.S. refused any peaceful means of resolving the problem. for christ's sake, the taleban were ready to deliver bin laden to a neutral country, although that was obediently eliminated from the corporate media. and now, N.1. confronted by paxo on the british support of the dictatorial regime of saudi arabia ("a friend of the civilized world" in tony's own words!) tony had the guts to say, without a hint of laughter, that: "THEY HAVE THEIR CULTURE"!!! okay, so the fight against the taleban was a fight against a repressive regime in the name of democracy (the country has oil and gas, oh that's a bonus!) while the support of the saudi regime, incidentally they already have access to its oil, is justified because "they have their culture" and we have to respect that!!! do they seriously think that we are going to buy this crap?! I can't wait to see how the corporate media reports this tomorrow... I'm having a really hard times putting into words what I feel so I'll stop here... for anyone who missed the interview, just a couple of thoughts to ponder on...

In Solidarity,

kon4m